The garden as it moves into November

Hi Sbg, that is a lot of leaves for 1 tree, should get quite a lot of leaf mould from that lot, Derek.

That's as good as any mulch you can buy. I use fallen leaves to over winter in my vegetable bed.

Beautiful autumn colour, and I'm pleased all those leaves are bagged :)

lol, he would be tearing his hair out here, we are surrounded by an 80 acre wood, mainly oaks, and they shed their leaves late November/December, after the silver birch and the ash have dumped their leaves, it is a continual sweep up/clear up for what seems an eternity. lol. I try to be patient and wait for them all to be off but that is never going to happen, good job I have a couple of good sweeping brushes and rakes. Love the leaf colour and pleased you have them all bagged up. Grass hates leaves but the borders love them. :O)

That's a lot of leaves from just a single tree.....you have some good Autumnal colour in your garden.

A good job well done and some lovely leaf mould to come as a bonus ....

they leaves take 2 or 3 seasons to become a good mulch and the problem is finding somewhere to store them. I use it around the plants that like a slightly more acidic soil as they contain quite a lot of tannin.
There is a large beech hedge as well as other trees in the boundaries so lots of leaves still to come. the beech tree still has another half to dump yet.

Glad we don't have a wood if that's the case but I'd love a woodland Oliveoil.

I do love it Seaburngirl but at this time of year it is a hard task master. lol. not really complaining it is too beautiful at various times of the year. Just a lot of hard work. :O( it does help to keep me fit pushing the brush and pulling the rake around. lol

That's an awful lot of leaves to fall off of just the one tree!

Even on a balcony I still get my fair share of tree leaves as there are a few quite big trees but they are turning a beautiful yellow!

Think of all that lovely leaf mod you could make, ready for use in a year or so!
It's a lovely time of year althoughI have to say I don't miss taking up all my customers' leaves.....some had lots of huge trees but, someone else will be doing that this year as I stopped the gardening job earlier in the year after nearly twelve years!

I rake the leaves onto my vegetable bed after the last harvest and leave it to break down all winter. It controls erosion and with all the rain & snow we get, is ready to turn under in the Spring.

Sadly the beech leaves take up to 3 years so leaving them on a bed isn't a sensible option. I wish I could Bathgate. Other leaves from other trees do get rotted down really quickly though.

You're right. The seeds would have a hard time breaking through those tough leaves. That's when I load them into the fire pit and WHOOOSHH! Ash is also good for the vegetable bed, :)

Paulspatch - must be a shock to the system, not gardening any more - but leaf clearing is one of my most hated jobs, and not one I'd miss if I gave up altogether. Its the 'ironing' or 'filing' of gardening really! I mean filing paperwork.... much loathed by me too...

Those bags are well stuffed, but its amazing how much the contents reduce down over time...

I made a start Seaburn and have one bag full, went out today with the intention of clearing more and decided I'm getting old, only outside a few minutes, it was that flipping cold I never even picked the apples up....

It has been bitterly cold here today too. we moved our daughter into a first floor flat in York today. Hot climbing stairs but the wind was quick to whip the heat away.

Still lots of leaves on the trees and lots of plants to put to bed in the greenhouse.

Am I odd I like filing and raking leaves? No don't answer that haha!

Ha ha, not odd, no just different....! How d'you feel about ironing...

I love the thought of making the leaf mould, Bamboo, so I suppose it drives me on with the raking!

Well I'll admit its very satisfying when its done, with all the leaves collected up and the lawn clear. We're awash with fallen leaves here at the moment after the freezing winds over the weekend, I'm really glad I don't do the communal gardens here, be a big job for the gardeners when they come this week. And very, very noisy for us residents since they started using leaf blowers, its really intrusive

Yes, similar here. We have a private green behind our garden and we(the residents association) use leaf blowers/collectors for all the Oak leaves(it used to be a wood/copse area.

Bamboo if I am fed up with OH then ironing is just the thing to distress :o)
we stopped using the leaf blower due to the noise they made.

Well, okay, now I have tosay, not that you're weird, let's settle for unusual - you like filing and leaf clearing and ironing... I do all three at times, but in order of preference, its probably leaf clearing, then ironing, then filing - but I don't really like any of them, any more than I enjoy washing up! Whoops, hold on, don't tell me, you like washing up too;-))

I don't like ironing really and I'd rather wash than dry but prefer neither haha
unique not unusual surely :o))